Quotable Quotes: Henry Rollins & Captain America

I first heard this quote by Henry Rollins in Ryan Holiday's book "The Obstacle is the Way" and I really like it. I found it came from a Big Think interview from September 7, 2012 (the quote starts at minute mark: 2:20, and I recommend watching the entire clip which is a little over 4 minutes):

"People are getting a little desperate. They might not show their best elements to you. You must never lower yourself to being a person you don’t like. There is no better time than now to have a moral and civic backbone, to have a moral and civic true north. This is a tremendous opportunity for you, a young person, to be heroic, to be morally upstanding, to be helpful, almost Boy Scout-like, presidential, to be altruistic."

It's so important to know who you are, what you stand for, and hold steady. This reminds me of a quote by character Sharon Carter at Aunt Peggy's funeral in the movie Captain America Civil War:

"She said, compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, No. You move."

Love it.